Hi Graham, You have been helpful to me in the past and I certainly take on board what you say. Certainly something to think about as I am now pushing my way back on all sides of the family pre-1838. I live in Suffolk so my Essex mob are not too difficult, but Black Country and Shropshire are proving a little more difficult. regards. Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Price" <genetree@pacific.net.au> To: <eng-shropshire-plus@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 10:04 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] CADMAN > At 07:14 PM 8/10/2006, Martin Adams wrote: >>Having seen Barbara's CADMAN request, it reminded me that I have a >>Martha CADMAN born around 1801 in Dawley. I have her wedding and >>subsequent details but nothing about her actual date of birth or parents. > > Hi > Again, as my dear old list friend Keith Roberts says not trying to > teach grandmothers to suck eggs, but if you go to Hugh Wallis' > website and type in Cadman for Dawley, up comes a Martha Cadman > christened 1797, which is soooooooo close. Could be, eh? Otherwise > yours may have been baptized at another parish very close by. > > Also, I don't want to keep harping on this to the list lest I be seen > as an advertiser or pusher or some such, but LDS at their local FH > libraries scattered throughout the world in various towns do allow > you to order in at their local libraries the original copies of > parish registers and also Bishops Transcripts on microfilm for a very > small fee; in Australia it is a mere $5, which is probably only about > $3 in the US and Canada. That is an amazing low cost for a whole or > part parish register. Which means that you can really get your teeth > absolutely into family history research and do it all by yourself > (with exciting results) at long last and not rely upon others. My > advice, do it yourself if you can, it is more exhilarating that > way. I am still gob-smacked after all these years why more people > don't take up this offering. After all, you are then looking at > original registers!!! Where else are you going to get them unless you > live on the spot or are geographically close to the particular record > office? Here are the original baptisms, marriages, burials etc. > written in hand by the local vicar or the curate (mind you, vicars > often stood back and let the several curates do the work unless > someone of a fair importance to the parish was being married or > buried, let alone baptisms). > > Re. my experience, I have had so many parish registers and Bishop > Transcripts viewed on microfilm since 1994 at the local LDS FH > library in my suburb and which have brought me so much success so > that why would I not promote this way of researching? (And no, they > don't check your religion or lack of it! It is a library, enough > said.) I guess, as an estimate at this present time in 2006, I have > had close to 200 microfilms viewed since 1994, and only a very small > handful, perhaps less than 10, though I think it was really only > around about 6, have failed to give me what I was looking for. That, > surely, is a magnificent result over all those years. Perhaps that is > the main reason why my computer database of connected family > relatives has risen from 250 in 1994 to over 4000 in 2006? I feel I > have to share this with you. Back in 1994 an LDS family history > researcher said to me that she had over ten thousand on her computer > database, all connected folk in her family tree. To be honest, at the > time I smiled and said nothing, thinking this was foolishness. Then > as the years unfolded and I myself found living members of my family > tree, I too began to add in persons/families 40 or 50 at a time, then > I found a marriage in 1863 that linked two of my family branches > together, all perfectly certified by marriage certificate etc., and > because of this marriage there was added almost 200 folks dead and > living to my computer database in one fell swoop from a distant > cousin. Of course it all had to be proved out, which it was. But just > goes to show you how things can easily escalate in family history > research. > > BUT again, one must always remember that one must know what one is > looking for re. parish records and it is necessary to look in the > right place. So just ordering a microfilm in case it MIGHT contain > something of worth to you is not necessarily the correct thing to do. > You have to pin things down to the very parish, the very village if > necessary. In many cases the IGI, the BVR disks and the Free BMD will > do this for you, but not always. > > So, ask for help. That's wot we are here for. To help. Do it. > Cherrio > Graham > Melbourne > Oz > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >